Franklin was just as horrified when he saw the first meeting of Congress where they couldn't agree and they brought their own prejudices and their own agendas. So, yes, this is an example of, perhaps the best example and the earliest example, of the opportunity of America.

Thus, I consent to this Constitution because I expect no better and because I'm not sure that it is not the best. She could neither claim to be a widow as there was no proof that Rogers was dead.

He developed the Franklin stove, which provided more heat while using less fuel than other stoves, and bifocal eyeglasses, which allow for distance and reading use. Thereafter, she stopped corresponding with her husband. Franklin also organized the Pennsylvania militia, raised funds to build a city hospital and spearheaded a program to pave and light city streets. He and Read eventually resumed their relationship and decided to marry. While Reed considered her marriage to her first husband to be over, she was not able to legally remarry.

Well, he said, prior to that speech and that was the last speech really he gave before the Constitutional Convention. Then he moves on to a career in invention and eventually he gets into diplomacy. Upon arriving in London, Franklin decided to end the relationship.

We're so dismayed today when we see this happening in our Congress, this state of discourse as it is. He was a very good businessman. All of his inventions go toward public safety and public betterment and public health.

That is what we must do, gentlemen. He began in the printing trade apprenticed to his brother James and he took to that. Franklin continued to write to Read, inquiring as to why her letters had ceased, but still did not return home. He saw himself, as I said, as the common man and that was the way he presented himself.